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". . . a library tends to become a veritable Frankenstein, eating up elbow-room and bearing down like an avalanche on space, long before its creator realizes it to be no longer his slave." Thomas Moult: Introduction to Spencer's Forty Years in My Bookshop

 

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

~Lord Henry P. Brougham

 

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Logan Pearsall Smith.

 

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” - Horace Mann

 

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - GK Chesterton

 

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

--Jim Rohn

 

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars.

You can borrow that from your kids!

--Jim Rohn

 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

--Walt Disney

 

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet,

but his books were read'.

--Hillaire Belloc

 

I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime.

All which have been with books

--Unknown

 

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

 

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

--Eudora Welty

 

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

--Gilbert Highet

 

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

--Unknown

 

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

--Gore Vidal

 

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.

--Mark Twain

 

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

--Groucho Marx

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